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Operating Systems Solaris setuid and guid Post 302194389 by Smiling Dragon on Monday 12th of May 2008 09:09:07 PM
Old 05-12-2008
I'd suggest moving the AIX setuid question over to the AIX section - I'm really only familiar with the Solaris use of it.

itik: I don't think I really understand your question... The sticky bit is still used plenty, it's just rare to use it on a file to hold it in memory - modern schedulers do a better job.

RBAC and sudo are also used as alternatives to setuid.
 

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